{"id":75618,"date":"2020-10-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75618"},"modified":"2020-10-18T07:39:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T12:39:06","slug":"biden-ad-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75618","title":{"rendered":"Biden Ad &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Saw another Biden ad. Did you know Trump plans to eliminate Social Security? Really. But never fear, Joe Biden&#8217;s got a plan to save it. Good for him. You go, Joe!<\/p><p>Except. . . what, exactly, is that plan? Everybody knows Social Security is insolvent, but as far as I know there are only three solutions and all of them suck, which is why nobody in Washington is pushing them, not even Trump.<\/p><p>We could raise the retirement age high enough that people die before collecting. That would save money.<\/p><p>We could cut benefits low enough that there&#8217;d be enough for everybody to get a check, though maybe not enough to live on.<\/p><p>We could raise taxes on our kids&#8217; incomes high enough to fund current benefits and current retirement age, but that would leave our kids destitute.<\/p><p>You know, Joe, before I pull the lever for you, I&#8217;m going to need some more details on this &#8216;plan&#8217; of yours. Care to be more specific?<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I keep yelling that at my TV\/computer, several times a day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their pollsters just <em>have <\/em>to know that &#8220;Joe has a plan!&#8221; can only resonate with idiots.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Right?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw another Biden ad. Did you know Trump plans to eliminate Social Security? Really. But never fear, Joe Biden&#8217;s got a plan to save it. Good for him. You go, Joe! Except. . . what, exactly, is that plan? Everybody knows Social Security is insolvent, but as far as I know there are only three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,20,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-20","category-democrats","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75624,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75618\/revisions\/75624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}